To:N. P. GORBUNOV

Dictated:Dictated by phone on February 6, 1922Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

      Printed from a typewritten copy.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Willyou check up on the basis of which laws and rules
over 143 private publishers are registered in Moscow, asIzvestiaof 5/II reports, what are the administrative and
editorial staffs responsible for each publisher, what is their
civil liability and also responsibility in law generally,
who is in charge of this business at the State Publishers,
who is responsible for it.

Alsohave a secret talk about how and what kind of
supervision of this business is organised on the part of the
People’s Commissariat for Justice, the Workers’ and
Peasants’ Inspection and the All-Russia Cheka. All this is
strictly confidential. Get a reply ready for me, even if only
a preliminary one, by
Wednesday.[1]

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